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Physiological Studies of Fungi

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Abstract

IN his review of my “Researches on Fungi”, vol. 51, Mr. J. Ramsbottom, referring to the well-known Smut fungus, Tilletia tritici, by an unfortunate slip states that I have interpreted “the secondary conidium of Brefeld as a special type of primary sterigma borne by the basidium-body (promycelium)”.